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Textile Conservation

Wharfinger Building

The Humboldt Handweavers and Spinners Guild invites the public to its September Program, Thursday, September 11, at 6:45pm. The meeting will be held in the Bay Room of the Wharfinger Building, 1 Marina Way, Eureka, and is free of charge. Our guest speaker this month is Aniza Liming presenting a program on Textile Conservation in a Museum Environment. She will share her experience working in Textile Conservation in Australia and Singapore where she worked with extensive collections of flags and banners, theatrical costumes, Asian embroidered silks, tapestries and plant based ethnographic material. Aniza will discuss the importance of textile conservation & its documentation for the interpretation and preservation of our cultural heritage. Topics will include basic guidelines for the care and preservation of textiles, conservation vs. restoration, and preventive conservation vs. interventive conservation . Aniza has a Industrial Textile degree from Portugal and a Masters degree in Textile Conservation from Winchester, England. She will show before and after photographs of treated artifacts with discussion of treatments. More topics include preventive measures such as surface cleaning, storage and handling, pest and environmental control and conservation techniques.

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WHERE

• Wharfinger Building

PRICE

• Free